Sarah-Jane Linton
Chair
Sarah-Jane is Chief Academic Officer at Fife College. She has been a senior manager in further education for 10 years, and has worked in school and further education for more than 20 years. She is also a current grant committee member for BBC Children in Need. Until recently, she served as a Board trustee of 'WhoCares?Scotland', chairing their Policy, Practice & Learning committee and governing their activism work.
Sarah-Jane has lived experience of poverty. Poverty eradication, the rights of children and care experienced people are core motivators to her work, and shape her values both professionally and personally. She is a step and foster parent to 7, and a step granny to 1 and big sister to 8.
Siobhan Moon
Treasurer
Siobhan is a Director within the Royal Bank of Scotland, working with Corporate and Commercial customers to meet their funding needs. In this capacity, she has worked with a variety of customers in numerous sectors over the past 11 years, including not for profit organisations.
Siobhan is an ambassador for Blood Cancer UK, working to raise both awareness of the disease and their symptoms and funds to assist further research. This has seen her take part in numerous exciting challenges, including a 4,167m winter climb to the top of Mount Toubkal and raising over £30,000 in the past 4 years.
Fiona Sandford
Trustee
Fiona is an experienced third sector leader and trustee. She has led several charities and is currently CEO of Visionary, the membership organisation for the visual impairment sector across the UK (www.visionary.org.uk). Fiona is also a trustee of a Glasgow based grant-giving trust and for the last ten years has been honoured to be a trustee of The Corra Foundation. Fiona has a fundamental belief in the transformative ability of charities that have the voice of lived experience and expertise at their heart- which is what attracted her to Amma. Fiona lives in Glasgow with her family. She is a mother of two wonderful people and a besotted nanny to one very small joyful person.
Sarah Scarlett
Trustee
As a practicing midwife, Sarah has seen first-hand the positive impact of Amma’s support. She currently works as a community midwife within NHSGGC and also has experience in all aspects of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.
Sarah volunteered in Athens with Amurtel, a charitable organisation focused on caring for asylum seekers and refugees who are pregnant or have recently given birth. She provided midwifery care and education relating to all aspects of sexual and reproductive health, infant feeding and parentcraft. The experiences she gained during this time provided her with a real insight into the day to day lives, struggles and complexities of these individuals’ lives, as well as a deeper understanding of previously unfamiliar cultural norms and expectations surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.
Sarah believe passionately in the role Amma has in improving the lives and welfare of vulnerable women and birthing people.
Chloe Cannon
Trustee
Chloe is a qualified solicitor who has worked with both SMEs and FTSE-listed companies in commercial and strategy leadership roles across the engineering, energy and defence sectors. She has supported leadership teams with development and execution of corporate and commercial strategy. She has worked all over the world supporting multi-million-pound tenders, commercial contract negotiations and procurement activities. She has also been involved in multiple special corporate projects including Mergers & Acquisitions, partnerships and real estate developments.
Chloe is passionate about using her corporate and commercial skills to support impact-driven organisations to successfully develop their strategies to deliver maximum impact.
Dr Isioma Okolo
Trustee
Isioma is cross disciplinarian committed to eradicating inequalities within and between countries. As a consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist, researcher, writer and international women’s health advocate her focus is exploring community led participatory initiatives that promote positive and affirming pregnancy and birth experiences and outcomes for minoritised women, pregnant people and their babies.
Leah Hazard
Trustee
Leah Hazard is a midwife and the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, 'Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story'. Having studied at Harvard, Leah left a career in television to pursue her lifelong interest in women’s health after the birth of her first daughter. She soon began working as a doula, supporting women in pregnancy and attending numerous births in homes and hospitals across the country.
The birth of Leah’s second daughter prompted Leah to make the leap into midwifery. Since qualifying, she has worked in a variety of clinical areas within the NHS maternity services, including antenatal clinics, triage units and labour wards.
Leah is also the host of the podcast, 'What The Midwife Said', and a frequent commentator on women’s health for Woman’s Hour, the New Statesman, the Independent, the Guardian, Grazia and more. Her second book, 'Womb: the Inside Story of Where We All Began', was published worldwide in March 2023.
Kat Wing Mai Judge
Trustee
Kat is currently employed at one of Glasgow's FE colleges, having previously worked at the TARA Service and Migrant Help.
With more than a decade of experience in public and third sector front-line service provision, Kat has been passionately dedicated to supporting, advocating for, and campaigning on behalf of victims of trafficking, asylum seekers and refugees. Her efforts have spanned a wide range of issues, from basic survival to integration, including facilitating access and participation in Further (FE) and Higher Education (HE).
She firmly believes in the power of FE and HE to be transformative for those who have experienced forced migration and the subsequent loss of resources and assets. Her ultimate goal is to make education more accessible to those who wish to exercise their right to education, specifically women.
Kat's particular areas of interest include education, human rights, asylum and refugee matters, addressing violence against women and promoting equity.
Sangeeta Kalia
Trustee
Sangeeta is a monitoring, evaluation, research and learning specialist. She has worked with a range of third sector organisations, and closely within ending violence against women and girls and racial justice. She has built extensive knowledge of the charity sector landscape. Her work focuses on building equity and equality, and advocates for decolonial intersectional ways of working.
She is committed to the wellbeing and equality of Black and minoritised women, holding personal connection to experiences of migration, joy of community and intergenerational trauma structural inequalities can cause. As a result, Sangeeta is passionate about the work Amma does and is committed to its continued success.
Azza Abumandeel
Trustee
Azza holds a Master's degree in International Education and Development from the University of Sussex and a Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. Currently, she advocates for asylum seekers' rights and access to legal resources at Care4Calais. Additionally, Azza serves as an Ambassador for the Voices Network in Scotland. Her dedication to refugee advocacy and her extensive academic and professional background underscore her commitment to supporting vulnerable communities.
Elizabeth Ugwuanyi
Trustee
Elizabeth holds a Master’s degree in International Adult Education for Social Change from the University of Glasgow, which underscores her deep commitment to promoting social justice and community advocacy. With a professional background in healthcare and social welfare, honed through her work with NHSGGC, Elizabeth has developed a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable populations. She is eager to leverage her extensive experience to advance Amma’s policy initiatives. Elizabeth’s personal journey, including navigating the healthcare system and overcoming housing instability without access to social support, has intensified her dedication to advocacy. Her experiences have particularly driven her passion for supporting children of single parents with no recourse to public funds. Elizabeth is enthusiastic about contributing to Amma’s efforts to expand its impact on these marginalized communities and is committed to driving meaningful change through her role as a Trustee.
Gloria Odhi
Trustee
Gloria has an MA in Social Care and Diversity from the University of Bradford. She is currently studying cyber security in Glasgow. She previously worked for a women's rights NGO in her home country. She has also spent time working as a carer with Bupa in England. Gloria sits on Amma's Experts by experience group. She is a former Amma client, who received perinatal support.
Financial Statement
Our financial statement for the year ended March 31, 2022.
The full statement is available to download.
The full statement is available to download.